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Four Kenyan policemen will stand trial for the murder of a British aristocrat who died in police custody in 2012, a judge ruled this week. Alex Monson the 28-year-old son and heir to the 12th Baron Monson was found dead ...

Professor Banji Akintoye’s led Ilana Omo Oodua has berated the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, for rejecting the agitation for the creation of a Yoruba nation. Akeredolu had during the swearing-in of Princess Oladunni Odu as the new Secretary ...

There was drama at an Abuja Magistrate’s Court as the magistrate, Ibrahim Mohammed, ordered policemen to arrest and handcuff a lawyer, Eburu Barth, for challenging him on the summary of the case before the court. Mohammed of Magistrate Court 2, ...

The First Secretary of the United States of America Embassy in Nigeria, Madison Conoley, has said the male gender should also be considered as victims of s3xual harassment while finding a solution to the scourge.   He stated this on ...

A Nigerian man identified as Ifeanyi Mbah and his two children were killed in a fatal car accident in South Africa. His wife, Nomabandla Mbah, 33, was the only survivor in the accident. The accident  occurred in Port Elizabeth, Eastern ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 214 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,076.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday.   “214 new ...

The Niger Government has announced the outbreak of avian influenza (flu) in a cluster of poultry farms in the state. The Information Officer, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Abubakar Kuta, stated this in a statement made available to newsmen ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state Tuesday evening demolished buildings belonging to three close allies of his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.   The victims include former Deputy Governor, Dr. Pius Odubu, a member of the House of Representatives Prof. Julius ...

Former Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode returned to Twitter on Tuesday, tweeting for the first time after almost two years of absence. The former Governor has been away from Twitter for one year and 10 months. The last time ...

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a drug trafficker, Sikiru Owolabi, and intercepted various hard drugs packaged for shipping to the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Australia, the Maldives and New Zealand in some courier firms ...

The first message ever fired off at Twitter sold on Monday for $2.9 million when its sender Jack Dorsey accepted the winning bid for the collectible as a “non fungible token” or NFT at an auction. “Jack accepted the offer ...

Three years and five weeks since her abduction in Dapchi, Yobe State, a United States-based group, US-Nigeria Law Group, has lamented the plight of the abandoned Dapchi “heroine Christian” schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, with a report she has given birth to ...

A 20-year-old woman has narrated to a Nairobi court how her boyfriend, whom she met on Facebook, allegedly threw her from the 12th floor of a building while they were drinking together on their first date. Eunice Wangari Wakimbi, who ...

A man simply identified as Gbenro has strangled his wife known as Wayesola, who was fast asleep, to death.   Their daughter, Fayoke, narrated how her father killed her mother. The incident was said to have happened at Salvation Army ...

The Federal Government has not authorised private importation of COVID-19 vaccines, the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said. Enahire, who stated this during the Presidential Tasks Force (PTF) briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, said: ”Private importation of COVID-19 ...

Ten people, including a police officer, have been killed after a gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, shattering the calm for another US community.   A suspect is in custody, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said, ...

The Osun State Government has described the death of popular radio presenter of Unique FM Ilesa, Sunday Alakinde, as shocking and unbelievable. An auto accident, on Monday morning, claimed the life of, Alakinde and one other along Ilesa-Ife road, Osun ...

Parents of the 39 students kidnapped at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have given the Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum, to rescue their sons and daughters that were kidnapped 12 days ...

Nigeria has received 300,000 additional doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, the government said on Monday. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 in ...

No fewer than 700 shops and stalls were razed in a Monday morning fire incident that ravaged the Katsina Central market. Eyewitnesses said the fire started about 7.30 a.m. It was learnt that Sabo Ungwa area, where the affected part ...

Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have shot dead a Nigerian Navy personnel, Faruk Yusuf, who was deployed to Onitsha in Anambra State.   The killing is coming one week to the wedding ceremony of Faruk, who hailed from Unguwan Sarki area of ...

A nephew to President Muhammadu Buhari and member of the House of Representatives, Fatuhu Muhammed, has showed off a new house he built in Abuja.Muhammed, who represents Daura/Maiadua/Sandamu Federal Constituency on the platform of ruling All Progressives Congress, said he ...

The Anambra State command of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) has revealed the identity of the inmate freed by suspected gunmen in Anambra last week, while they were returning from court. The gunmen had attacked and killed men of the ...

Six persons, suspected to be internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys, on Friday night reportedly died in a lone accident in the Ughelli area of Delta State. The accident, which involved a Lexus SUV, occurred near the Ekiugbo junction ...

Suspected unregistered cow herders in Ondo State ran away as Amotekun officers arrested over 100 cows in the state for flouting the open grazing laws. The herders ran away upon sighting operatives of the Amotekun Corps. Adetunji Adeleye, Commander of ...